Birthday Cake with Hot-Pink Butter Icing

The secret ingredient for Ina Garten's moist cake layers? The addition of sour cream. Bake a 9-inch, a 6-inch and a 3-inch layer and frost each separately with hot-pink icing. Chill each frosted layer before stacking, then pipe or spoon the remaining frosting around the base of each cake and around the top edge of the top layer before finishing with candy decorations.

Birthday Sheet Cake

Ina's vanilla and lemon-zest cake will be your hardest-working birthday dessert. It comes together with just 15 minutes' prep time and is covered in an easy chocolate frosting. Kids can decorate the cake with their favorite chocolate candies.

Strawberry Shortcake Cake

Get your kids involved in Ree Drummond's strawberry-filled cake — her girls helped with each of the steps. Put parchment on your cake plate before icing so that you can make a mess when you're applying and just slide the parchment out when you're done.

Todd's Orange and Raspberry Cake

Giada De Laurentiis makes this shortcut cake for her husband's birthday. Cut down on prep time by starting with boxed white cake mix and incorporating orange zest and orange juice. Incorporate raspberry jam into the frosting itself and between cake layers.

Jelly-Filled Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Tyler Florence fills a squeeze bottle with grape jelly and squeezes it into the the tops of vanilla cupcakes. Ice the tops of the cupcakes with decadent peanut butter frosting and finish with your favorite candy decorations.

Four-Layer Birthday Cake

Kids will love designing their own birthday cake with Food Network Magazine. Choose from solid, striped, ombre or rainbow for the inside, then cover the outside with mini marshmallows, chocolate rocks, ombre coconut or nonpareils.